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Hi everyone,
I wanted to call attention to these 3 brief videos developed for the American Heart Association. They attempt to demystify CPR in the hopes that more people will take action. Please pass the link along!
Lily
Lily,
Thanks. Good information for all.
Hands only CPR (also known as CardioCerebral Resuscitation) should be the protocol followed in AHA approved CPR training now - and probably will be when the next round of changes is implemented in 2010.
Rescue breaths are rarely done properly and detract from proper compressions (rate of 100 per minute).
There is enough oxygenated blood in an adult to last at least 5 minutes on average, so rescue breathing is not necessary - at least for that time period. An AED used within that time frame will increase the survival to hospital discharge rate from a current dismal 5% (average) to well over 50%.
These videos and many others I've seen (backed by many medical case studies) are excellent in conveying the message that the proper Cardiac Chain of Survival should be:
1) Bystander Compressions at the rate of 100 per minute (EMS can't get there in time)
1A) call 911 (use your speaker if no one else is around to make the call)
2)Defibrillation (get and use the AED)
3) Early advanced cardiac life support - (EMS)
4) Therapeutic Hypothermia - usually for 24 hours in hospital but can and should be initiated at the scene if possible (ice bags applied to the thighs and chest for instance)
I watched those videos after my husband had a SCA in Februrary 2008.
In July 2008 he had a second SCA and I was very mindful of the vids I had seen. I did hands only & kept a good, deep "Staying Alive - BEE GEEs pace" while screaming my head off in the woods. (We had been walking our dogs in our local woods when he went down.) I think focusing on the pace (much faster than I had been taught back in the 1960's) and the depth of pressure - don't worry about doing it to hard - put your back into it and if a rib cracks - so what?
We got him back after at least 15 minutes hands-only, non=professional CPR without brain damage.
OF course we are lucky and no one should imagine that but for ... thye could get this outcome. However - we did get this great result and I think YouTube is my hero.
Hi Debra,
What a great story! I hope you share it with the AHA. It would be very encouraging for them to get that sort of feedback.
:-)
Lily:
It's funny you happened to post your note yesterday. Our cardiologist did tell the AHA about it and today he is in DC with a bunch of survivers for an AHA lobby event. (I would have gone to but I had to work this week.)
Good information. In July 1008 my husband survived with no brain damage after my 10 minutes of hand-compression-only CPR. I wasn't ready to be without my man...the adrenaline running through me was intence. I was pushing hard and fast. It sounded like he was snoring but the 911 gal said that meant that I was pushing hard enough for his body to have air come out like that. At the hospital they began induced hypothermia. Cardiac sarcoidosis is still doing it's damage but he now has an ICD and we have more time together.
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